Comment confusion

Rico says sometimes he even confuses himself:

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Foreign comment for the day":

I am new in English learning, what does this mean? 

"Although I had originally intended to investigate only those aspects of cultural identity traditionally of greatest concern to intercultural communication (those being ethnicity, race, and nationality), it became clear as my data accumulated that almost all of the couples equated the various pulls on them, not weighting these elements above others (including individual characteristics, family concerns, geographic location, even membership in voluntary associations)."